Your Health is Your Wealth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Your Health is Your Wealth

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The individuals involved, in the project Your Health is your Wealth, have learned how to lead a healthy lifestyle through healthy eating, an active lifestyle and how to increase mental health and well-being. We helped the students to focus on creating a lifelong healthy lifestyle by raising awareness concerning the significance of physical and mental fitness by introducing healthy nutrition and physical activities as well as mental training such as mindfulness and yoga.
The students got an opportunity to improve their English skills as the project language was English and also their IT-skills by using internet platforms and programs to make presentations. We raised awareness of the safe use of social media.
We raised the students’ social competence by working in teams, both locally and internationally, and their staying in host families. They learned about each other’s cultures, habits and education systems. Through contact with students from other nationalities they experienced how important language skills are and how similar questions, topics and problems exist among all European people.
The schools, in the project, focused on the different areas of health, mentioned above. During the exchanges we worked in mixed nationality groups and after each exchange the students passed over their newly acquired skills to their peers, family, teachers and there were articles in local newspapers to spread it to the community.
The students have been ”ambassadors”, at their respective schools, during a Healthy Week where they have taught their peers what they have learned, to pass their knowledge on to students who will hopefully continue to spread their new knowledge to even more students. Mindfulness has been introduced in some classes, co-operation with home-economics and PE and after-lunch walks, when possible, are also an outcome of the project. Some schools have now a close co-operation with local sports clubs.
The students now have the skills to choose a healthy life-style. They are aware of the importance of physical activities, healthy food and how to reduce stress. They have an improved understanding and appreciation of other cultures and habits which is of utmost importance for the understanding and acceptance among young people in Europe, but also worldwide.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84761 Eur

Project Coordinator

Annerstaskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• OZEL DARUSSAFAKA ORTAOKULU
• Szkola Podstawowa w Zawidzu Koscielnym
• Staatliche Wirtschaftsschule Neuburg a. d. Donau